Feel like enjoying some great Japanese cuisine tonight—and lots of it? If you’re on Oahu today, check out the 6th annual Taste of Marukai, an annual food and sake event benefiting community organizations that perpetuate the Japanese heritage in Hawaii. The event, which runs from 6 to 9 p.m. at Marukai Wholesale Mart in Honolulu […]
HAWAII Magazine’s March/April 2011 cover feature unveils our 2011 NOW List—our annual collection of the “20 Things We Love About Hawaii … Right Now.” Pick up a copy and you’ll find several pages devoted to write-ups and photography of things we’re currently fascinated with here in the Islands. Among them are our favorite fictional Hawaii
Californians who’ve had a taste of Hawaii-style poke love it as much as Hawaii residents do. And they’ve got two—count ‘em, two—upcoming festivals that prove that amore. In April, San Diego and Huntington Beach are hosting I Love Poke Festivals, showcasing more than 15 different styles of the favorite Hawaii snack-appetizer-lunch-dinner-whatever mainstay. Poke— pronounced “poh-KAY”—is the
It’s raining, as it has been for the past few days on Kauaʻi. Cars swerve to avoid potholes and people are armed with hooded sweatshirts, umbrellas and newspapers held over their heads. The scene in Līhuʻe looks more like Seattle in the summer than Kauaʻi in January. Still, while the bus stops and parking lots
Picture yourself at a beachside barbecue, on the lawn at aptly named Paradise Cove, Oahu. As the sun sets through the waving palms, you wander from food tent to food tent—and realize this is not just any barbecue. There’s roast duck with red wine teriyaki sauce. A seafood pouch with shrimp, clams, mahimahi and honshimeiji
On a warm winter evening last month, more than 1,000 hungry Honoluluans converged in a small parking lot near Ala Moana Center to sample some of the city’s best food truck cuisine. The event, dubbed Eat The Street, wound up a wildly successful first-time-for-Honolulu venture, thanks, in part, to social media sites like Twitter and
Say you’re at the top of your profession as a Hawaii hotel chef. You’ve cooked at Waikiki’s famed Halekulani and done a stint in San Francisco during the food revolution of the ’80s. At the Lodge at Koele on Lanai, you’ve won the “triple crown” from Zagat. That is, the guide rates your restaurant tops
It’s no secret that lots of Hawaii residents love Spam. Spam musubi. Spam loco moco. Spam and eggs with rice breakfasts—even at Hawaii McDonald’s restaurants. Spam cookbooks. Whether you eat it or avoid it, its part of the vernacular of Hawaii cuisine. With residents consuming more than 6 million pounds of it a year, Spam
Imagine dining on a celebrity chef-designed six-course meal, prepared with fresh Big Island procured ingredients, at a luxe resort on the South Kohala Coast. The James Beard Foundation’s cross-country gourmand-appealing road trip Celebrity Chef Tours is making a stop at the Mauna Lani resort this month. It’s the first time the tour has been in
Say you’re at the top of your profession as a Hawaii hotel chef. You’ve cooked at Waikiki’s famed Halekulani and done a stint in San Francisco during the food revolution of the ’80s. At the Lodge at Koele on Lanai, you’ve won the “triple crown” from Zagat. That is, the guide rates your restaurant tops
Recently, Peter Merriman rang us asking if our Mainland HAWAII Magazine readers might appreciate a few recipes that would add a bit of Hawaii flavor to their holiday season meals. We were all ears. Merriman is one of Hawaii’s most successful and celebrated chef/restaurateurs, and a longtime champion of using fresh, locally procured ingredients from
If you’re on Oahu or Maui this week, you need to eat out. Away from your hotel room or vacation rental. Away from your home or condo. It’s Restaurant Week Hawaii—a full seven days dedicated to showing off the Islands’ ever-interesting, multifaceted dining scene and locally-produced ingredients while supporting Hawaii’s future generations of chefs. The
